Senior DevOps System Administrator

Job DescriptionJob DescriptionTITLE: DevOps System AdministratorLOCATION: 140 Broadway, New York, New York Core Responsibilities:

• Manage deployments to test and production environments including backend services and frontend clients
• Develop tools and scripts to automate the deployment, administration, and monitoring of AWS cloud services
• Collaborate with development team to harden, streamline, document, and establish software release processes
• Work with cross functional teams to improve operability, supportability, and usability of our digital infrastructure
• Monitor and track key health and performance matrices of systems and applications
• Identify, troubleshoot and resolve production server and client issues by analyzing logs from all digital infrastructure components
• Continue to improve operational processes for better utilization of underlying cloud resources

Requirements:

• Strong background in Linux and Windows administration (clustering, load balancing, backup etc.)
• At least 3+ years of DevOps experience with strong shell, python, and Ruby scripting skills
• Experience with automation and configuration management using Chef and Ansible
• Strong AWS administration experience including EC2/ECS, S3, RDS, VPC, OpsWorks, IAM, EMR, and ElasticSearch services
• Ability to use a variety of open-source technologies and integration with cloud services
• PostgreSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL proficiency
• Ability to evaluate system and application logs, error messages, stack traces to quickly identify and solve production problems
• Understanding of best practice and data center operations in an always-up, always-available setup
• Experience in integration of enterprise level monitoring and alerting systems
• Ability to create and maintain update to date infrastructure documentation including systems, networks, databases, and their interactions.